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Originally Posted by filtherton
I imagine that the folks who concern themselves with the rigorous study of race relations don't care about the conventional definition of racism because it actually reduces the amount of detail possible in a discussion. Especially when the conventional definition so frequently is completely at odds with the academic definition. That's why the distinction is made between racism and racial discrimination.
Common sense is the problem here; it is too superficial to say anything interesting. Common sense is what people rely on when they lack the ability or desire to think about something analytically. The usefulness of the mythical concept of common sense lies solely in the fact that "COMMON SENSE!!!!" makes a useful rallying cry for people who believe in it.
There are no common sense solutions to intractable political and social problems and common sense ways of looking at these problems frequently make them worse.
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see and I see the same thing that you cry... INSTITUTIONAL RACISM POWER SUBJIGATION... and then the discussion goes into that loop.
so how does one ever bridge the discussion?
rb, thanks, that's what my point is in stating it as I have been, I'm not disagreeing with the institutionalized racism, but I seem to see that the discussion only makes it as far as black/white, your extending it to the Native American is useful as an illustration to this point since you're the only one who has brought it up in the same context as the history of the US power/subjigation etc.
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